Tax time blues: what part to buy next ?
Hey all, i'm in the same boat as many this time of year, looking to upgrade my system with a couple new parts.
My goal, spend 250 to 300 bucks on my pc to get a decent solid state hard drive and a couple new 120mm fans from antech, and possibly a new power supply with led lightage :D tho i know i dont have enough cash for it all
here's my current specs, I cannot afford new cpu + ram + mobo so please, keep that in mind when you bash my setup! lol
Processor: AMD phenom X4 9950 quad core 2.6 GHz
Mobo: M4A77D asus
Ram: 8 Gigs total... 4 sticks of 2 gig ram, ddr2 6400<- bought to match the mobo at the store i went to.
HDD: Velociraptor Harddrive 300GB 10,000 rpm
Graphics Card: PNY Nvidia gtx 470
Power Supply: 650 w bfg gs series atx12v 2.2
Zalman cpu cooler.
Antech 902 case.
The case itself had 4 fans in it, i added 3 more, it sounds like a turbo engine running but it stays pretty cool. It has a turbo button on it which overclocks it automatically to a certain degree, tho i dont know enough about Overclocking to really figure it out... :) but i want to learn.
The temps in my system never get over 44 degrees for the processor and never over 78 degrees on the gpu. Usual temps around 36 and 67 for internet browsing, spiking up to 44 /78 while boxing. I think theres room for improvement though.
So the idea is to upgrade the slowest part of my system and boost my windows experience index lol. Solid state HDD is the way to go imo, as the rest of the system works pretty well. I have been having some graphical issues but not sure if its isboxer related or wow cache folder related. I'll figure that out soon enough, as this gtx 470 is brand new, only a couple weeks old.
On to the point as it seems i'm rambling... OMFG WHAT SSD DO I BUY!?!!? keeping in mind 180 dollars or so would be the target price. I could go up to about 250 bucks, ideally getting 2 ssd's one for my windows 7 64 bit os and the other for my wow folder, keeping the raptor as my "data storage"
